Count Julian

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Count Julian

by Walter Savage Landor

EN·~1 hours·24 chapters

Chapters

24 total

Transcribed from the 1812 John Murray edition by David Price, ccx074@pglaf.org

0:05

COUNT JULIAN:

1:12

CHARACTERS.

0:18

ACT I. SCENE 1.

2:56

ACT I. SCENE 2.

2:12

ACT I. SCENE 3.

6:05

ACT I. SCENE 4.

3:15

ACT I. SCENE 5.

1:20

ACT II. SCENE 1.

5:17

ACT II. SCENE 2.

9:42
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Description

In a shadowed corner of Spanish history, a tormented noble seeks vengeance for the death of his beloved child. Count Julian, haunted by loss, rallies his broken spirit against a tyrant who has seized the kingdom, vowing to wrest Spain from barbarian hands. The opening scenes pulse with desperate prayers, bitter monologues, and a fierce promise that only blood‑soaked justice can restore his honor.

Around him swirl characters of rival courts and foreign courts—King Roderigo, the Metropolitan of Seville, a Moorish chieftain, and the enigmatic Covilla, Julian’s outcast daughter. Their tangled loyalties and whispered conspiracies set the stage for a clash of faith, family, and power that threatens to engulf the entire nation. Listeners will be drawn into a lyrical tragedy where personal grief fuels a broader war, and every spoken word drips with the weight of a doomed destiny.

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Language

en

Duration

~1 hours (101K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

May 1, 2003

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

1775–1864

Best remembered for the rich, dramatic prose of Imaginary Conversations and for short lyrics that still linger in readers’ minds, this fiery English writer lived as boldly as he wrote. Admired by later literary giants even when never widely popular, he left behind work full of sharp thought, classical style, and strong feeling.

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